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Merseyside CC, 1973 & 1977.

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The mega Newcastle borough proposed in 1937:-

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Merseyside CC, 1981. Labour recaptured the county council. A tie in St Michael's, Liverpool. The Liberal lost by the short straw to Labour.

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@afneil @MailOnline This article gets better and better upon further reading. Far more clarity than you'll get from any politician. Hope that you have lots of opportunity to question them at the next election.

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Cheshire CC, 1977. A sea of blue...Con 56, Lab 9 and two independents.

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Lancashire CC, 12 April 1973 (inaugural) election. Con 52 Lab 33 Lib 7 Ind 3 Ratespayer 1 (Blackburn no.1 division).

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Greater Manchester CC, 1977.

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Picturing the 1945 Labour gains.

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Greater Manchester CC, 1981.

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Wolverhampton, 1945. Labour takes control of the council. A Communist defeats the retiring mayor in St James'. The eight Libs wiped from the council after losing their Eastern division in July. (Mint colour = Inds/Ratepayers).

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Tyne & Wear CC, 1977. One of the few county councils that Labour clung onto during that cycle of elections.

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Lancashire CC, 5th May 1977. Con 83 Lab 12 Lib one (Tony Greaves in Colne).

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Birmingham, 1966. The Conservatives captured control of the city (majority of two) after 14 years in opposition. A swing towards them since the March GE but a swing away from 1965. Ken Hardeman won Newtown for the Libs with the help of 100 cheering schoolchildren and a dalek.

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John Roper (the former MP for Farnworth) drew this illustrative scheme for 67 UK seats in the European Assembly (copy printed in The Economist, 1976).

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Greater Manchester CC, 1973.

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Oxford, 1969 to 71. City boundary extended in 1957, Blackbird Leys ward drawn in 1967 and University representation cut to eight, 1969 all out elections for the 14 new wards and 1970 the franchise extended to students (they used to be classed as visitors).

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Oxford 1945 and 1946. Each ward was represented by six councillors and two aldermen. The university also had representation on the council - nine councillors and three alderman. Coloured by leading candidate. Split outcomes inevitable given each voter had, at least, two votes.

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Birmingham, 1962. New wards but councillors assigned so Shard End (3 Lab) was the sole all-out. Wallace Lawler won Newtown, the first Lib victory for 25 years. Depending upon the aldermanic elections Lab majority would be four or six. Turnout only 33%.

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Bradford CB, 1967. A Tory landslide. Final year for this ward scheme (inaugurated in 1937). Slum clearance and new housing developments had left the electorates way out of kilter.

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Bolton MB 1973 & 1975, courtesy of Gt Man Votes 1973 by D. Clark. The civil servants did a grand job drawing these 'temporary' metro wards in the circs. ( @andrewteale )

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Salford, 1966/67. The Tory gain in 66 (St Thomas') was said to be caused by disgruntlement about the slum clearances. 1967 - 8 Con gains and one Lib gain. Lab lost control because they didn't have the strength to prevent Con/Lib taking the retiring aldermanic seats.

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Picturing the Labour performance in 1951, almost 14 million votes, cut into four equal(ish) parts.

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A suggestion with boundary line (1937-ish) for a Merseyside Authority.

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Nottingham, 1967. The final year for that ward scheme. Con gained control - Con 41 Lab 27. New wards in 1968. All out election. Runaway victory for the Tories. Coloured by the leading candidate. (Thanks to BNA the ward maps were eventually located).

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Brent, 1964.

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The inaugural elections for the short lived Warley CB, Feb 1966. An amalgamation of Smethwick, Oldbury and Rowley Regis. Labour was jubilant and sang The Red Flag and 'Where's Peter Griffiths?'. Lab 27, Con 16 and two Indies before the aldermanic elections.

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The inaugural election map for Teesside CB, 1967. A shadow authority for one year. In existence from 1968-74. Coloured by leading candidate. Con 56 Lab 39 Others 9.

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Kirklees and Wakefield, 1973. No official ward names. Coloured by leading candidate although the results were more complex. John Brightman, Citizen, prevented a Lab clean sweep in Hemsworth.

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The Association Of Municipal Corporations proposal for English local government, Nov 1970. 13 Provincial Councils and 132 authorities. (Some of the NW authorities in greater detail).

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Leeds, 1967. The final year for this ward scheme. Victorious candidates polling from a low 659 votes to a high of 6,555. The Tories gained five seats and just snatched control 57-55 from Labour.

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Croydon, 1963. The final elections before amalgamation with Coulsdon & Purley UD to become a London borough. Tories and allies given the same colour. Con/allies 34 Lab 29 and one Independent.

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An estimation of the 1945 London results on the 1946 binned map. DN Pritt, Lab Ind, winning in Hammersmith.

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@angrynorfman Ironically Labour was most hostile about the county met councils at inauguration. They were very pro unitary.

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Bradford, 1892. Fred Jowett was elected in Manningham for the ILP however he was not the first socialist councillor in Bradford because C.L. Robinson had been returned unopposed at a by-election in the same ward a few weeks beforehand.

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Tyne & Wear Met. CC, 1973 (Lab 74, Con 26, Ind 3 and one Lib).

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Preston, 1945. 57% turnout and ten Labour gains (six from Con, four from Ind). Council now in Labour's control - Lab 26, Con 14 & eight Inds pending the aldermanic elections.

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Portsmouth, Nov 1945 and May 1949. It is debatable which candidates were truly independent or fought without a party label but still took the Con or Lib whip. Nine Lab gains in 45 plus one Comm and six Tory, two Lib & two Ind losses. Lab wipeout in 1949.

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Kirklees and Wakefield, 1979/80. (Two successful Ratepayers in Wakefield 1979 and the Tory gain in the Hemsworth area, albeit by 15 votes, was achieved by a split Labour vote. 1980 - John Brightman returned to the council in South Kirkby).

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For Yorkshire Day - York, 1979. New ward boundaries and an all out election. The council stayed in Tory hands albeit by one seat but Alex Lyon (Lab) held the constituency on the same day. (Coloured by leading candidate).

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Glasgow, 1973. The final elections in Scotland before reorganisation. The city was definitely due a ward boundary change. A Lib near miss in Kelvinside. SNP not challenging either main party. Link to the results:-

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Birmingham, 1919. A setback for the Unionists (Tories) with a net loss of 13 seats, Labour & allies (Co-operatives) had a net gain of 10 seats. Other gains for the Progressives (Libs), Independents and a Tenants' candidate. Turnout less than a third.

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Bradford CB, 1945. Councillors elected in 1936 plus all wartime co-options were up for re-election. North Bierley West was a split ward, Libs 1st and a Labour candidate elected in 2nd place. A very strong Labour performance across the city.

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Sheffield, 1967. New wards so an all out election. Seven wards had split representation. Coloured by the leading candidate. Lab 41, Con 39 & Ind (Mosborough) one.

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Birmingham, 1972. 19 gains saw Labour take control of the city after six years in opposition. (Lab 87, Con 61, Lib 8). Plus Sutton Coldfield, 1972. (Con 31, Lib 7, Oths 2). One Lib gain. A portent for 1973?

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Glasgow wards 1970-73 (Progressive counted as Con) by % Prof/Managerial (1971 Census) descending. A bit naughty to compare with an English constituency with equivalent %. (The Exchange ward voted Progressive until the Business Vote was abolished in 1970). A clear picture!

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Belfast, 1967. Franchise restricted to ratepayers and their spouses. Councillors elected all out every three years. Aldermen served for six years but directly elected. Unionists 44 Rep. Lab 8 Lab 2 Prot. U 2 Ind Lab 2 Ind one NDP one. (Gerry Fitt was the Alderman for Dock).

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Wakefield, 1969/70/71.

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Cheshire, 1973. NOC so council led by a Tory-Inds- Lib alliance (38 seats) to Labour's (29).

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Leicester 1945/46. Labour took control in 1945 with 12 gains - Lab 39 Con 23 Lib two (both aldermen). After the aldermanic elections the figures stood at Lab 41 Con 22 and one Lib, and that was the same outcome after the 1946 elections.

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Salford, 1921. The new wards, desperately needed because of the electorate inbalances, but no 'general election' because councillors were assigned. The first lady candidate - Mrs Moulson (Lab/Co-op). A mish-mash of results.

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Leeds from 1968 (new wards) to 1971. The transition from Tory landslide to Labour recovery. 1968 Con 101 Lab 16 Lib 3. 1971 Con 71 Lab 45 Lib 4. Labour taking control in 1972.

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Wakefield, 1953. New wards but existing councillors assigned to these wards to avoid a whole council election.

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Wigan, 1968/1969. The final year of the old wards (electorates from <600 to over 10,000) and six Tory gains on the new boundary scheme.

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Barnet, 1968 (new wards) - Tory landslide, Con 65 Lab 4 and one Lib. 1971 - the reversal but still a safe Tory borough, Con 50 Lab 19 and one Lib. (Coloured by leading candidate).

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St Pancras, 1937. Numbers not names for the wards but copied a guide to the borough from an old book. Each ward returned six or nine councillors. Municipal Reform (Tory) 33 Lab 27. The British Union Of Fascists contested Ward 1 but only managed 3% of the votes.

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Leeds, 1972. Labour took control of the city after 15 gains from the Tories. The sole Lib victor was Denis Pedder. Lab 70, Con 46, Lib 4.

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Cardiff, 1972. Ten Labour gains (nine from Con, one from Plaid) however the council stayed in Conservative control 43-33.

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York, 1945/46/47. Not the easiest map to stitch together and the quirks (York Castle) ignored. Labour took control of the city in 1945 but the council was hung by 1947.

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Bolton, 1945. Multiple vacancies because of wartime co-options (coloured by leading party). Cllr J. Whittam elected in West ward was chairman of the National League Of The Blind. He sadly died in January 1946.

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@LBFlyawayhome Does anyone remember the x-ray machines for measuring our feet? So exciting to place your feet in the slot whilst the assistant and Mum viewed via the visor.

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David Glanfield

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The advertisement placed in local newspapers by the new Cheshire authorities in 1974.

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David Glanfield

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Michael Steed's 'results' for the 1970 GLC election using the 1973-81 seats (The Economist, March 1973). Con 51 Lab 41 rather than the actual Con 65 Lab 35.

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Bradford, 1891. Lib 35 Con 23 Ind one (South ward) Lib-Lab one. The Tory elected in Manningham was described as a 'Working Man Conservative'. Samuel Shaftoe, West Bowling, was a Trades Council rep but classed as Lib-Lab in The Rising Sun Of Socialism.

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David Glanfield

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A crude comparison of the Con seat geography of 97 vs 24 (165 reduced to 121).

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Bradford 1969 was still very Blue and 1970 saw Paul Hockney, David's brother, capturing Idle for the Libs. Labour did recover in 1970 across the West Riding but on a scale that pointed to close GE.

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Preston, 1976 - new wards, Con 43 Lab 13 Lib one and 1978 five Lab gains and one Lib gain from Con. The council had opted for election by thirds.

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Birmingham, April 1973 (West Mids Metro County) and May 1973 (City Council). Same divisions/wards for both elections but differing results.

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Wolverhampton, 1972. Seven Lab gains from Con so council balanced at 40 seats apiece. The Tories had agreed to a Lab mayor the previous year as a goodwill gesture. Not much goodwill now! Both sides fratched over the new mayor and his casting vote. Labour won.

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Bradford, 1971. Nationally Labour reclaimed their 1968 and 1965 losses plus a bit more. These local election results are probably the worse suffered by a new government during their first year in office.

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Stoke, 1945. Labour achieved 19 net gains and took control of the council. Lab 74 Anti-Lab 38. Many seats up for election, those elected in 1936 (28) plus the wartime co-options (13). The council didn't adopt ward names until 1976.

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Tyne & Wear CC, 1981. A solid Lab victory with 72 wins out of total 104 seats.

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Leeds, 1929. The three main parties had agreed a truce because the 1930 election was going to be an all out on new boundaries. The Communists nominated two candidates but lost heavily in both wards. Lab 36 (control) Con 27 Lib 5.

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Sunderland CB, 1954/55. Some places barely change but not Sunderland. Umpteen ward reviews and borough boundary extensions. The 'Anti-Socialists' had various names but fit under the same colour. 1954 Lab 52 Antis 20. 1955 Lab 50 Antis 22.

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Halifax, 1955. The locals were held during the GE campaign. Six unopposed returns. The council expanded to 61 members because the mayor-elect lost his seat on the aldermanic bench. A 'citizen mayor' (allowed back then). He did win a by-election during his term - unopposed.

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Burnley CB. All wards contested and high turnouts. 1945 - Lab 27 Lib 11 Con 10. Labour retake control. 1946 - Lab 30 Lib 11 Con 7. 1947 - Lab 32 Con 8 Lib 8.

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Swing-y Calderdale. The Tory landslide of 1975 and Labour's best performance in 1995.

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Preston, 1946. Turnout dipped to 50%, which was adisappointment according to the local press. More Labour gains (three from Con and two from Inds). Labour now had a firm stranglehold on the council - Lab 36, Con 9 and three Inds.

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The Guardian's 1966 forecast - Lab 388 seats (49.1% of the popular vote), Con 226 (40.6%), Lib 13 (8.6) Others 3 (1.7). A list of the seats wrongly forecast:-

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Bradford, 1st November 1937. A 'general election' for the new ward scheme, a split amongst Labour and hence a most unusual nomination pattern, the death of one candidate delaying the ward election by three weeks and a recount to avoid an election petition.

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Hull, 1973/76/79. Solidly Labour throughout this period.

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@Dylan_Difford From the HoC Library stats 2/3rds of the LD seats are in the upper quintile of the least deprived (and mostly Southern).

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@LBFlyawayhome Thank you. The chap working on the roof appears to be levitating and/or missing his lower legs and feet.

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The ward map for Leeds from 1912 to 1929. Roundhay, Seacroft, Shadwell & Crossgates ward was the latest extension to the city.

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Greenwich 1912/1919 (elections suspended from 1915). 1912 Municipal Reform (Tory) 19 Progressives (Liberal) 8 and three Independents. Labour swept to victory in 1919 20 seats to ten (alderman figures not included). Many extra women added to the register in 1919.

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The top 12 seats closest to the national lead.

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Lancashire CC, 1964 & 1967. Visualising the results (sans map). The CC had created a new division for Kirkby in 1964 (pop growth) and there were adjustments in the Fylde area (1964) and Worsley (1967). An over 10% swing to Con in 1967 but far too many unopposed returns.

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Bermondsey, 1953. New wards and a Labour clean sweep. The council remained solidly Labour until abolition. Plus a clipping from the local guide about Bermondsey baths & facilities. Aeratone bath:-

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Wakefield, 1945. Six gains saw Labour take control of the city from the Conservatives.

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Bury, 1979. Labour holding both their (pre-74 local govt.) parliamentary constituencies but the Tories winning the council on new ward boundaries, Con 33 Lab 15.

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Niche topic but the first successful election of Labour candidates and the first female to public office in Halifax. The results of the Halifax School Board election, January 1892, full report Halifax Courier 9th January 1892 (BNA):-

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Basic map of Leeds, 1951. New ward boundaries and a Tory landslide but control was lost within two years. Conservative support was heavily concentrated in the northern wards and too inefficient for this (and any?) ward map.

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Enfield, 1964. The councillors split (and a neat cut to the borough) 31-29 in Labour's favour and they claimed all ten aldermen. These boundaries were to last for five elections...long story.

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Bradford-Calderdale-Leeds, 1982. A hotch-potch of close results. (New wards in Kirklees and Wakefield).

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@LBFlyawayhome Mack's made gorgeous chocolates.

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Newcastle, 1945. New ward boundaries (delayed because of WW2). Labour took control for the first time 30 councillors to 27 Progressives. Following the aldermanic elections the majority increased. Ald. JA Clydesdale was appointed as first Lab mayor, the only blind mayor in UK.

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@bo66ie29 It does look a bit dour but I'm told by those who were alive at that time that folk were happy and confident for the future. We'd won the war and were the second most important country after the US.

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York, 1973. Same leading party for county election in the April (Lab 7 wins, Con 7 & Lib one) and city election in the June (Con 17, Lab 17 & Lib five).

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Cardiff, 1973. The city boundary extended and a whole council election (using the old wards plus the parishes). Lab 42 Con 33.

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In memory of the late Trevor Wilson 1927-2024. West Riding County Councillor 1963-67, Alderman 1967-74 and West Yorkshire County Councillor 1974-86. (It's now very unlikely that there are any surviving members of the WRCC).

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Glasgow, 1949. New ward boundaries and a very tight contest. Labour won 56 seats to the Progressives' 55 so the Dean of Guild and Deacon Convener held the balance (no aldermen in Scotland).

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